Right And Wrong Decisions In Your Taper
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
You’ve come this far, don’t confuse “getting fresh” with being lazy. Taper means so many things to so many people, but today we look at the best ways to approach taper, both mentally and physically. We talk about everything from how to handle your workouts, to packing, and mental roller coasters throughout taper. We look at phantom pains, visualizing and a gradual recovery. We also talk about your plan when you GET to the race so you can stay focused and on point. Stay in your zone, don’t let the body shut down, and get rid of as much life stress as you can.
Topics:
- Walk Out Song
- Phone music and video
- 70.3 and Full Taper
- Athlete Guides
- Right and wrong decisions in Taper
- Taper is in Pencil
- Feel sluggish?
- Mental battles
- Staying in your zone
- Save your energy
- Get Fresh Gradually
- Don’t remove intensity
- Fresh But Prime
- Adjusting best case scenarios
- Feeling the feeling of being fresh
- Letting off the gas can be dangerous
- Rationalizing TOTAL rest
- Don’t let the body completely shut down
- Remember what it’s like to feel fast
- What life things can you do to remove stress?
- Clear your plate
- Train, THEN be lazy
- Have a plan when you GET to the Race
- Pre-Race Haircuts
- Laying out your stuff
- Pack what you REALLY NEED early
- Removing stress but staying focused
- Start visualizing
- Make your list
- Panic turned into fun
- Mind shifting practice
- Meditation in motion
- When we dial in physically but not mentally . . .
- Humble Reminders
- Set yourself up for success
Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You asked in the Facebook |
| 0:05.0 | You asked in the Facebook group |
| 0:22.8 | What everybody's walkout song would be |
| 0:25.2 | And this would be mine |
| 0:26.4 | The Crushing Iron theme |
| 0:31.3 | This would be |
| 0:34.3 | This would be your walkout song |
| 0:38.2 | the crushing iron song |
| 0:39.3 | free promo huh |
| 0:40.7 | two minutes and |
| 0:41.8 | it wouldn't be like a bad |
| 0:44.4 | a bad business model like you know |
| 0:46.6 | to like have people recruit your |
| 0:48.5 | you know like chime in and be like hey |
| 0:50.9 | what do you want to listen to when you come out of T2 |
| 0:52.7 | and you just follow the tracker and then you set up your boom box and you rip it right when they come out. |
| 0:57.6 | And it might even sound something like this. |
| 1:00.5 | Good old Rocky. |
| 1:05.4 | I like it. |
| 1:07.4 | It sounds great. |
| 1:08.9 | It's football time in Tennessee, baby. |
| 1:10.4 | We're on the night. I can't hear it. 6 p.m. great. It's football time in Tennessee, baby. We're on the night. |
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